The tract, located just north of Little Switzerland, is one of many along a five-mile stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway that the trust aims to preserve because of their natural and historic significance.

The plot of land contains not only a half-mile of headwater streams, but also a section of the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail, which follows the route taken by Revolutionary War militiamen in 1780 to the Battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina.

The Conservation Trust for North Carolina represents 24 local land trusts throughout North Carolina that have protected over 286,000 acres in more than 1,660 places across the state.